Signed, on stone, center right edge: [Whistler's butterfly device]

Watermark, center of sheet: PA Stamped, in brown, lower left, verso: RBP in a circle, indicating that it was printed at the direction of Whistler's executor, his sister-in-law, Rosalind Birnie Philip (1873-1958) after Whistler's death. (Lugt 405)

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner: W58 | K 32862 Inscribed, center bottom edge of sheet: 64 Inscribed, lower right corner: 57 Inscribed, in brown ink, lower right corner: 38 Inscribed, in pencil, verso: a95642

Rosalind Birnie Philip (London, England). 1930, (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York, USA)

1930-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 12, 4 (1931): pp. 41-43.

James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine", 1894, printed in 1904, lithograph printed in black ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Julius H. Haass, 30.356.